INSTAGRAM. “Love-alley” picture-word world. Share what’s moving you

Imagine, how it would like to be in love;-) Walking along an alley, smiling, laughing, humming, not paying attention to the street but to the sky…, feeling great, having and needing no words (maybe therefor you are just smiling;-), seeing all the good things, not the bad ones…

Do you got an image of yourself in love strolling in an alley? What would you like to share? Instantly?

40 followers. Is this a lot? 20 media published. Is this insufficient? 62 followings. Too much comparing to followers? Three month ago I didn’t even have an account on instagram, now this platform has me, more or more less. (Great label by the way: insta-gram <>instant + gramma, Greek: sign, char, icon, signal.)

Okay, back to the beginning… (Not already back to this love-alley, but I will come back to that later on. Promise.)

I am studying Public Communications. I did always. Being serious, it’s one of the most interesting and exciting things to do. Wanting to get to know what people are interested in, looking at, sharing with friends, talking about, doing, thinking of and feeling. In my opinion, anyway. Since September last year I am studying more “seriosly”. That means, I am studying at fhjoanneum in Graz (Austria). Extra occupational to my job at antonpaar. I am responsible for Corporate Communications in this company, which is world market leader and world technology leader in various and more than one field of measuring instruments and which employs more than 2,300 people. My job is occupying. My studies are too. Both are great! Here on Medium I am publishing my experiences with instagram. My learnings. As I told you at the beginning it’s just three months ago I didn’t have any experience with this pics-hashtag-platform. And now…

Okay, let’s go into the matter and more close to this alley I talked about at the beginning…

Instagram. Social Media learnings 3 (#SoMeLz3).

If you have a moment (do you have moments sometimes, I have them;-), if you make a picture to fix a moment on Polaroid — woah, wrong media;-) — to save it on your mobile, because you are proud, excited, overwhelmed, in love, mad, angry, sad, crazy about something, speechless, chuckling, furious, happy … if something gets deep into you and starts to build a message instantly, your message … why not share it? Have you ever asked yourself, why and forwhy you — or others — are in a “moment”? And want to share this moment instantly? With friends, of course. With strangers, of course (not?). It’s not necessary. Don’t ask yourself too much. It’s reality. Share. (At least, it must definitely not bring up problems with your conscience, integrity or law and involve somebody in troubles.)

Share. Share what’s moving you, because it’s just blurting out of you — in this special moment. So intense that you want the whole world to know it. At least potentially.

We are back in this alley;-)

That’s my learning. Share what is moving you. This will move others. And maybe this will be on top what inspires them to feel, see, look at, do. It doesn’t have to be always the whoawhoayippie-love-alley-movement which makes you sharing. But there are so many positive, energizing, illuminiating and relumining everyday-wonders or chuckles-about which are worth to share. Don’t share copies or unauthentic messages — or do you believe someone who doesn’t love him-/herself telling you he/she is in love with you?

If you are in this love-alley — okay, you are not thinking too much about others. Your thoughts, your whole being is mostly directed to the one and only;-) You would like to share everything good with the person you are in love with. But this metaphor helps to understand. If you are in love you would like others to tell about, to share your happiness, to fix it more and more… Instantly you are thinking about sharing, your mind is going — metaphorically spoken — global and you are thinking about others. These persons should be more than recipients, they should really care to share your moment.

You are deeply in public communications now…

30 billions of pictures have been shared on instagram since the launch of the app in 2010. 70 million pictures are published every day by now. More than 7 billion people are living on earth… We all have our moments.

It’s easy to make a picture, it’s not easy to capture, what or whom you care about. To “fix” a moment.

Instagram. Pictures with hashtags. It’s good to explain your “moving-pics” with words which have the ability to move someone too. Even, if you are in a moment you think, you don’t need words or you are wordless. We are just human beings. Moved by impressions our intellect would like to “have a word”. A word with the pic. Maybe the persons who care will have a word with you and comment. Right in this special moment when you are cought by one. I learned: Don’t forget the “moving” words with your moving pics. They will make the message holistic.

It’s like a ”heart-pic” — once more metaphorically spoken — and a “I love you” in the right moment.

At least, I will consider this:-)

Cu. In this “picture-word love-alley world”;-)